You know, this is crazy. We do this all the time, even on an everyday level.你知道，这很不正常。我们总是在想这些，甚至在日常生活的状态下。If you think about the last time you had a wobbly tooth.如果你想想最后一次，我不知道，你有一颗松动的牙。You know it&#39s wobbly, and you know that it hurts.你知道它是一颗松动的牙，并且你知道它很痛。But what do you do every 20, 30 seconds?

I guess we all deal with stress in different ways.我想我们应对压力都有不同的方式。Some people will bury themselves in work, grateful for the distraction.有些人会把自己埋头到工作中，用以分心不去想。Others will turn to their friends, their family, looking for support.另一些人则会从朋友和家庭中寻求帮助。Some people hit the bottle, start taking medication.还有

We live in an incredibly busy world.我们生活在一个异常纷杂的世界。The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are always busy, and we&#39re always doing something.生活的步调时常快得疯狂，我们的头脑(心灵)一直忙碌运转着，而我们每时每刻都在做着事情So with that in mind, I&#39d like you just to take a moment to think, when did you last take any time to do n

So for example, right now, if I focus too much on the balls,打个比方，现在，如果我太集中于这些球，then there&#39s no way I can relax and talk to you at the same time.那么我就无法能够放松并同时与你们说话。Equally, if I relax too much talking to you, there&#39s no way I can focus on the balls.同样地，如果我太过于放松地跟你们说话，那我将无法专注在球上。I&#39m going to

Now we&#39re not here for that long anyway,虽然不管怎样我们不会在此地待多长时间，but to spend almost half of our life lost in thought and potentially quite unhappy, I don&#39t know,但耗费大半人生迷失在思考中并因此可能变得非常不幸福，我不知道，it just kind of seems tragic, actually, especially when there&#39s something we can do about it,这真的听起来太可悲了尤

A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut,几年前，我感觉对老一套感到枯燥乏味，so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock,所以我决定追随伟大的美国哲学家摩根·斯普尔洛克的脚步，and try something new for 30 days. The idea is actually pretty simple.尝试做新事情30天。这个想法的确是非常简单。Think about something

The program has been great, weekday veg我很喜欢周间素食这个点子My footprint&#39s smaller, I&#39m lessening pollution,我的碳足迹小了，我减低了污染I feel better about the animals, I&#39m even saving money.我对动物感觉好些了，甚至还存了一点钱Best of all, I&#39m healthier, I know that I&#39m going to live longer,最棒的是，我更健康了，我知道我会更长命and I&#39ve eve

I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for 30 days.我也认识到，如果你真想一些槽糕透顶的事，你可以在30天里做这些事。Have you ever wanted to write a novel?你曾想写小说吗？Every November, tens of thousands of people try to write their own 50,000-word novel, from scratch, in 30 days.每年11月，数以万计的

So why was I stalling? I realized that what I was being pitched was a binary solution.我到底在迟疑什么？我发觉这是因为我把它当作一个二分法的问题。It was either you&#39re a meat eater or you&#39re a vegetarian,你需要决定你到底是吃肉还是吃素and I guess I just wasn&#39t quite ready. Imagine your last hamburger.我想我实在没做好心理准备，想象最后的一个汉堡。So my common

You know, the mind whizzes away like a washing machine going round and round,你们知道的，大脑（心灵）总是像一台洗衣机般飕飕运转，反反复复，lots of difficult, confusing emotions, and we don&#39t really know how to deal with that.许多复杂、令人困惑的感情，而我们却不真的知道怎么来应对，And the sad fact is that we are so distracted that we&#39re no longer prese

About a year ago, I asked myself a question: &quotKnowing what I know, why am I not a vegetarian?&quot大概在一年前左右，我问了我自己一个问题：“我明明知道这些资讯，为什么我不是个素食者？”After all, I&#39m one of the green guys: I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.毕竟我支持环保，热爱绿概念 和嬉皮父母在小木屋里长大。I started a site called TreeHugger — I car